Support Your Local Farmer.

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”– Wendell Berry

Meet my new best (goat) friend. We chatted for awhile, while my guy scavenged for goat food. He’s swell.

Find a local farm and support your community’s hard work today. You’ll end the day feeling blessed.

What lovely pictures! We haven’t found any local farms/orchards here, although it’s something I’d love to do. Also, I love your new goat friend — and I love that y’all chatted about lookin’ for lady goats. I’m sure he appreciated the venting session. 🙂

Thank you, Lillian! Me and my goat friend had some pretty serious chats about the ladies at the farm. I’m sure people around me thought I was nutty, but I always chat it up with animals. They’re great listeners 😛

We live in a big farming area–during the summer and fall there are always stands on the side of the road selling produce. We buy onions off the side of the road nearly year round, and in the summer we pick berries and buy eggs from a local farm. It’s a great way to support your community! My great-grandpa was a farmer and ran a produce stand to earn his living his whole life, so I have a soft spot for the guys selling veggies. 🙂

Aww 🙂 What a wonderful story! I have a lost of respect for your grandfather.. being a life-long farmer is no easy feat! It makes me look that much more forward to my future as a farmer and homesteader knowing I can help support my community with nutrition and health.

Now if only the Winter would fly by so we can see those road side farm stands come back! Thanks for commenting 🙂